By P Gosselin on 22. March 2015
A few years ago at a social event I had a brief discussion with a secondary school teacher who happened to be on some sort of committee in Hannover which decided the textbooks the children at Lower Saxony upper secondary schools were to use. On that subject I told her I thought that the geography textbook […]
Posted in Abnormal Climate Psych, Activism, Climate Politics, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 21. March 2015
In former times, the job of official climate witch-hunting had been one of the German Ministry of Environment, which even went so far as to identify, target and attack skeptic US and German scientists and journalists – all because they held non-alarmist views on climate change. Fortunately that activity turned out to be somewhat embarrassing, and thus the […]
Posted in Activism, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 21. March 2015
Israeli scientist Nir Shaviv recently posted at his site an article on the effects of cosmic radiation on climate. At the end he summarizes: The results have two particularly interesting implications. First, they bring yet another link between the galactic environment and the terrestrial climate. Although there is no direct evidence that cosmic rays are […]
Posted in Misc., Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 20. March 2015
It’s a good thing Germany still has a lot of conventional power supply from coal and nuclear on line. Otherwise the entire country would have blacked out this morning during the partial eclipse of the sun. Conventional fuel saved the day. As the following diagram depicts, there was almost no wind output from Germany’s 40 […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Nuclear energy |
By P Gosselin on 20. March 2015
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Posted in Misc.
By P Gosselin on 19. March 2015
Hat-tip: European Institute for Climate and Energy German power producer EnBW has sent a letter (see below) to its customers informing them that the situation was under control as tomorrow’s solar eclipse is poised to put Germany in partial darkness shortly before noon and to test the country’s power grid stability. Because of the eclipse, […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By P Gosselin on 18. March 2015
With a whopping efficiency of up to 60.75%, it is considered the world’s most efficient gas-fired power plant; it’s the ultimate when it comes to turbine engineering (see following promo video). “Answer to climate protection” to be mothballed! World’s most efficient gas-fired power generation plant to shut down as a consequence of a run-amok “Energiewende”. No other […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 17. March 2015
Face it. When it comes to environmental protection, the EU can be awfully strict. Drop just a single molecule of something hazardous out somewhere in nature, and expect it to be treated like the crime of the century. That’s the way it usually is with eco-bureaucrats, except of course when it comes to green energies like […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Pollution |
By P Gosselin on 16. March 2015
German public radio Deutschlandfunk (DLF) reported earlier this year that scientists have discovered that twice as much snow has been falling in the Ural Mountains than 100 years ago. Yugyd Va National Park. Public domain photo. Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne here. The DLF reports: Ural: snow causing the tree line to rise. Climate change does not […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Russian Climate Science |
By P Gosselin on 15. March 2015
Sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft is to circumnavigate the globe “without a drop of fuel”. However it will in fact need thousands of litres of fuel from support planes. Photo credit: Brussels Airport, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. There’s been a fair amount of hype surrounding the Swiss Solar Impulse 2 project where […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Green Follies, Innovation |
By P Gosselin on 14. March 2015
German meteorologist Dominik Jung writes at wetter.net that the first preliminary forecast for Central Europe for the upcoming summer issued by the NOAA does not look very favorable. Expect a “grisly summer”, he writes. He writes that over the last 10 years spring has generally been on the warm and sunny side, but that Central […]
Posted in Models, Stupid Predictions |
By P Gosselin on 13. March 2015
We keep hearing that the climate and weather forecasting tools are gaining in sophistication, and correspondingly in reliability. Climate model simulators claim to be able to see decades, even centuries, into the future! Yet Spiegel Science journalist Axel Bojanowski has an analysis here which looks at the recent spate of failed El Niño predictions by the NOAA, […]
Posted in Models, Oceans |
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